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THE WORK OF THE AMERICAN 

SEAMEN'S FRIEND 

SOCIETY 



BY 

DOUGLAS C. McMURTRIE 



NEW YORK 
1913 



Copyright, 1913, by the 
American Seamen's Friend Society 







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THE WORK OF THE AMERICAN 

SEAMEN'S FRIEND 

SOCIETY 

THE work of a sailor, by its very 
nature takes him to strange places, 
and leaves him a great deal of the 
time in need of a home — some place to 
which he can turn, where he will be sure 
of a welcome. 

All over the world the American Sea- 
men's Friend Society maintains stations 
which are homes to the sailor arriving in 
the various ports. They offer him places 
of comfort to which he can turn and find 
lodging, security and rest. 

The following summarizes the activities 
of the Society at home and abroad : 

I. Improves the social, mental, moral 
and religious condition of the seamen of 
the world. 

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2. Maintains Seamen's Institutes, Sail- 
ors' Homes, Bethels, Churches, Reading 
Rooms, and preaches the Gospel in the 
principal ports of America and foreign 
countries. 

3. Supports wholly or in part 51 chap- 
lains and missionaries in 35 ports of the 
world. 

4. Provides clothes, meals, lodging and 
transportation for shipwrecked and desti- 
tute seamen of all nationalities. 

5. Helps relieve sick seamen and cares 
for them while convalescent. 

6. Places loan libraries (43 volumes) on 
board ships for the use of the crew at sea. 
This society has about 3,000 loan libraries 
constantly afloat. 

7. Provides Bibles, Hymn Books and 
Manuals of Worship, so that the worship 
of God can be maintained on board ship 
at sea. 

8. Provides a place of rest and recrea- 
tion, concerts, lectures, music, baths, and 

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everything the saloon has, only under 
clean, healthy conditions, for seamen when 
ashore. 

9. Provides a banking system to encour- 
age seamen to save their money or send it 
home to their relatives. 

10. Provides stationery for the sailor to 
write home to mother, wife, children and 
friends. 

11. Cheers the heart of the chaplains on 
the waterfront in their fight against the 
forces of evil and helps them to help the 
helpless sailor. 

12. Helps support the Church of the Sea 
in the Seamen's Institute, 507 West Street, 
New York City, and other organized sea- 
men's churches in America and Europe, 
where worship is held every night in the 
year, and the Holy Sacraments of Com- 
munion and Baptism are observed in these 
Bethels and Churches. 

13. Focusses the attention of the Chris- 
tian Church on seamen and fishermen, and 

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their families. The American Seamen's 
Friend Society is the Christian Church on 
the seas, rivers, bays and ports of the United 
States and abroad; and makes a common 
platform on which Christian men of all 
creeds can unite, philanthropists can work 
and associate in a common service to the 
sailor. 

To maintain all these activities at home 
and abroad, the American Seamen's Friend 
Society needs $50,000 every year. 



Checks should be made payable to the 
American Seamen's Friend Society, and 
sent to Clarence C. Pinneo, Treasurer, 
76 Wall Street, New York. 



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American Seamen's Friend Society 
76 Wall Street, New York 

Organized, May, 1828 Incorporated, April, 1833 

John B. Calvert, D. D., President 

Honorary Vice-Presidents 

Hon. Theodore Roosevelt 

Hon. John D. Long 

Hon. W. H. Moody 
Rev. Edward B. Coe 

Admiral George Dewey, U. S. N. 

Hon. Geo. B. Cortelyou 
Hon. Victor H. Metcalf 

Hon. Sumner I. Kimball 
Hon. Geo. V. L. Meyer 

Mr. Elbert H. Brinckerhoff 

Hon. Benj. F. Tracy 

Anton A. Raven, Vice-President 

Rev. G. McPherson Hunter, Secretary 

Clarence C. Pinneo, Treasurer 
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1 1913 

Board of Trustees: 

Class of 1QI2 
Daniel Barnes 

A. Gifford Agnew 

Alexander Torrance 

Walter D. Despard 

Morton C. Coggeshall 

Class of igij 
John B. Calvert, D. D. 
Augustus T. Post 

Edward M. Cutler 

Capt. Howard S. Randall 
Frederick E. Tasker 

Arthur H. Allen 

Class of IQ14 
Anton A. Raven 

Nehemiah Boynton, D. D. 
Frederick B. Dalzell 

Capt. Charles B. Parsons 
Fritz V. Briesen 

Theodore L. Peters 



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